"Then she can marry the one who offers most,
the man marked out by fate to be her husband."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 16, lines 434-435. After the suitors kill Telemachus, Antinous says that Penelope should wed the suitor who offers most for her. He views that man as being marked out by fate to marry Odysseus’ wife. But little do the traitorous suitors know that the true king of Ithaca has a different fate in store for them. And he is the one fated to be with Penelope.